Overview
- Based on the author’s extensive interviews with close to a hundred IT workers
- Delineates the enormous diversity of IT workers in India today
- Examines the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on IT workers in India
Part of the book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work (DVW)
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Keywords
- Contemporary Labour Studies
- Trade Union Studies
- IT hubs
- IT workers
- Information Technology workers
About this book
This book is a study of workers in India’s Informational Technology sector, and focuses on how the past three decades of neoliberal economic reforms have impacted the efforts to organize the workers in the sector given the socio-political and economic setbacks encountered by the broader labour movement. In doing so, the book explores the role of privatization, changing gender relations inside and outside the workplace, new organizational forms created by IT workers to advance their interests, and the increasingly precarious nature of IT work.
By exploring how the growth of the IT sector in India has amplified and reproduced discrimination against unskilled and marginalized elements of the labour force, the book shows the ways in which other social and political divisions create considerable barriers when it comes to the ability of IT workers to successfully collaborate with other sectors within the Indian labour movement
The book will be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, labour studies, political economy and gender studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Suddhabrata Deb Roy is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology in the University of Otago, New Zealand. He mainly works on Marxist theory, and is the author of four books and numerous journal articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Rise of the Information Technology Society in India
Book Subtitle: Capitalism and the Construction of a Vulnerable Workforce
Authors: Suddhabrata Deb Roy
Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58127-4Due: 07 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58130-4Due: 07 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-58128-1Due: 07 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2947-9290
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: CCXLVIII, 248
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations